What to Look For in a Billing Company

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What to look for in a
Billing Company!
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2. Presenter
Fred Melroy
Director Billing Operations, CureMD

3. Good Billing Is Just Process
Great Book is Check List Manifesto by Atul Gawande, MD.
Good Billing is Like Good Surgery or Any Activity in Life that
Requires Organization!
Life and Billing is Complicated but Steps in an Organized Manner
Make it Easy.
Visit the Billing Office and take a look around or at the least
check references.
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4. Denial Management!!!
Did billing have inaccurate coding?
Was claim complete?
Was there lack of supporting documentation?
Was there an eligibility problem?
One day turn around time for denials to be resubmitted.
Denials logged and reviewed?
Cure verifies payments for correctness using a product called
“right remit” does your billing company have something similar?
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5. The Cure Billing Process
Insurance Verification
Charge Entry Process
Claim Submission
Payment Posting
Denial Management
Payment verification, is your payment correct?
Appeal and Collection Process.
Reading and understanding reports.
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6. The Simple Facts
A billing company is just that and you are a medical practice.
Reputable firms use professional management to collect all
of your revenue.
They hire professionally trained folks who concentrate on
billing and collection (denial management).
They have the latest reimbursement information from CMS
and Commercial Insurance Companies.
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7. More Simple Facts
Operations are not interrupted by a staff person leaving as
they have plenty of backup.
Have the resources to hire quickly and get the right people
including a CPC or two.
Develop contacts at the various insurance companies.
Get better priority on computer issues.
Have effective relationships with EDI Carriers for data
transmission and eligibility.
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8. The Dilemma
EMR/EHR
Patient Scheduling Claims Scrubbing
Paper & Electronic
Remittance
Denied Claims
Registration
System
Compliance
System
Claims
Management
Patient Demo Entry &
Eligibility Verification
Medical Necessity
Edits
Distributed environment lead towards inefficient, complex system results in
increased operating cost and important of all LOST REVENUE

9. The Revenue Cycle: Critical Billing Tasks
Payer
Contracts
Pre-visit Front desk
Visit
Post the Visit
& Charge Entry
Billing &
Collection
Reports &
Analysis
Payer Rejections
Edits
Patient Service and Satisfaction
Compliance
Provider Credentials
Payer Requirement
Covered Benefits
Patient Appointment
Registration Eligibility
Pre-Auth Referrals
Prior Balances
Confirm Registration
Copy Insurance Card
Collect Payments
Medical Records
Documentation
and Coding
Charge Entry
Select Payer
Produce Claim/
Statements
A/R
Follow up
Payments &
Rejections
Mail Claims/
Statements
Cash Analysis &
Reports
Measure &
Rewards Targets
Contract Analysis

10. CureMD - Integrated All-in-One Solution
Patient Scheduling
Patient demo entry &
Eligibility Verification
Medical Necessity
Edits
Claims scrubbing
CureMD
EHR
PM & RCM
Paper & Electronic
Remittance
Denied Claims
Registration &
Scheduling
Clean Claim &
medical necessity Edits
Denial Management

11. What makes us stand apart in billing?
One system that ensures integrated clinical and improved
communication for the complete revenue cycle management.
All in one solution that works with your existing billing and
financial system ensuring:
HIPAA Compliance
Efficiency improvement
Maximum effectiveness
Ensuring clean claims for denials prevention
State of the art rejection and denial management
Reports that make sense and Monitor activity
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12. More income is lost in poor Revenue Cycle Management
than you can achieve in rate increases

13. CureMD - Integrated All-in-One Solution
Straight 60 % reductions in operational and administrative cost in
comparison to in-house billing
Staying up to date with financial health of your practice by having
access to multiple financial reports (24/7) in comparison to manual
in-house reporting
Losing 2% of total Medicare revenue on e-prescribing and PQRS
incentives
Losing 17% of all claims denied for timely filing, caused by delays in
the billing (Source AMA)
Efficient Denial Management enables you to track denied claims and
what is being or can be done to get them paid. (MGMA reports that
7%-14% of all claims are denied because of easily correctable in–office
errors)
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14. It is More Than Just Time
You still need to document the visit!
Does you System Check Codes or Prompt Needed Items.
Codes 99201-99215 should be used depending on the complexity
of the visit
For level 5 make sure the history meets the definition of comprehensive.
A new patient is a patient who has not received any professional
services (face to face) in the last three years.
This time includes those you see for a different Dx.
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15. Financial Reports
CureMD’s 24/7 access to different reports helps to stay updated with
your practices financial health

16. Some Numbers That Matter!

17. Thank you!!
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212.509.6200
healthit@curemd.com